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* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
* CCBC Choice
* Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
* Vermont Red Clover Children's Choice Award
* Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
* Vermont Red Clover Children's Choice Award
* Indiana Young Hoosier Award


국내에서는 "아빠는 발명왕"이라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간된 명작 그림책입니다.

크리스티나의 아빠는 하루 종일 뒷마당에 있는 작업실에서 무언가를 골똘히 생각하고, 만지작거리며 발명을 합니다. 하지만 사실 아빠가 제대로 작동하는 발명품을 만든 적은 단 한 번도 없었어요. 그러던 어느 날, 발명품을 만드는 데 지친 아빠가 작업실을 나와 가족과 함께 강으로 낚시를 하러 갔지요. 낚시를 하던 중 크리스티나가 아빠에게 물고기에 관한 이야기를 했어요. 그 순간, 아빠는 자리에서 벌떡 일어나 작업실로 뛰어갔지요. 다시 발명에 몰두한 아빠는 하얀 물고기라는 잠수함을 발명했어요. 아빠는 하얀 물고기를 타고 물속으로 들어갔습니다만 하얀 물고기는 물속으로 가라앉더니 꼼짝도 하지 않았지요. 아빠는 다시 작업실로 돌아가 발명을 시작했어요. 아빠의 발명은 성공할 수 있을까요?

이 책은 역사적 사실에 바탕을 두고 쓴 이야기입니다. 이야기의 실존 인물인 로드너 필립스는 잠수함의 기능을 개선하는 데 큰 공헌을 했습니다. 이전까지는 잠수함이 앞뒤로만 움직일 수 있었지만 후에 필립스가 발명한 잠수함 덕분에 좌우로 움직일 수 있게 되었지요. 이 책에 등장하는 아빠도 잠수함 발명에 성공하기 위해 끊임없이 노력했어요. 만약 아빠가 잠수함 발명에 실패했다고 포기했다면 어떻게 됐을까요? 아마 새로운 잠수함은 세상에 나오지 못하고 아빠는 좌절감에 빠졌을 겁니다. 하지만 아빠는 절망하지 않고 다시 잠수함 발명에 힘을 쏟았지요. 수많은 실패 속에서도 포기하지 않고 다시 시작한 아빠 모습을 보며 아이들이 끈기와 노력, 용기를 키울 수 있기를 바랍니다.






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Hardcover: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 0374399085
ISBN-13: 978-0374399085
책 크기" 26.1 cm x 26.2 cm



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Book Description
Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?"--and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help, Papa--who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips--creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.


School Library Journal *Starred Review*
This picture book is a fictional account based on events in the life of eccentric inventor Lodner Phillips as told from the perspective of his daughter, Virena. Papa theorizes and tinkers but never succeeds. Finally, while the family is dropping lines from a pier into Lake Michigan, his daughter asks, "have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?" Immediately the man dashes back to his workshop and soon produces one of the world's earliest submarines, the Whitefish. Children will delight in the way Virena is the catalyst for her father's successive improvements to his primitive vessel as she continues to ask questions: about how fish move through water, stay dry, and know where they are going. Kulikov's luminous, playful, detailed illustrations on full-bleed spreads incorporate a variety of perspectives, including close-up views of fish and of Papa underwater and cutaway diagrams of his creations. An afterword is included. The exuberant and inquisitive tone of this book is sure to entertain curious children.


Booklist
There’s a rich history of batty inventor/tinkerer dads in children’s books, and the girl narrator’s father in this book could hang with the best of them. That he’s based on a real mid-nineteenth-century person makes it all the better. Whether Papa’s spectacular failures have been great ideas (steam-powered roller skates) or not-so-great (edible socks), “not once has Papa invented anything that works perfectly.” But inspiration flashes when the family is out fishing in the lake-a mechanical fish. Iteration after iteration of his rudimentary submarine ends in lighthearted disaster, each time the object growing more complex and preposterous until he’s finally come up with a vessel just crazy enough to work. Fleming festoons her glib narrative with read-aloud treats of “Clacketa-claketa-clacketa!” and “Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr!” Meanwhile, Kulikov dishes out some tall-tale-worthy artwork and cut-out designs somewhere between Leonardo da Vinci and Rube Goldberg. A closing note talks about Fleming’s inspiration, the inventor Lodner Phillips, who really did take his family for an underwater spin in Lake Michigan in 1851.